Esker South

More than 2,000 parcels touch this townland. The map cannot draw that many.

• M3DC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• R3SDZ (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Esker South.

Recorded monuments

• DU017-078 Bridge
  Description

  King Johns Bridge crosses the Griffeen River 30m upriver of the 19th-century bridge annotated Esker Bridge (NIAH Reg. No. 11204023) on the 1837 ed. OSi 6 inch map. This partially ruined hump-backed masonry bridge crossing the river from SW to NE probably carried a medieval road leading to St Finnian's medieval church ruins (DU017-022001-) and graveyard (DU017-022002-) 100m to NE. According to O’Keeffe and Simington (1991, 134-6), the bridge is clearly marked on Rocque’s map as 'King John’s Bridge'. Esker was part of a demesne in the Liffey valley which Henry II annexed to the crown and which was organized under King John as a royal manor. The bridge probably fell into disuse between 1760 - the date of publication of Rocque’s survey map of the County of Dublin and the 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map when the road is shown as re-aligned and Esker Bridge constructed. D'Alton (1838, 660) recorded that 'by an act of 1771, Mr Vesey havinn agreed that the road from the new bridge over the Liffey, should be carried without any expense to the county through his estate in a certain line, whereby said road would b considerably shortened, it was enacted, that, as soon as the said new road should be finished, it should be lawful for Mr. Vesey to stop and enclose that part of the old road which lies on the west side of the little river Griffin'. Only a single central arch survives of the original triple-arched bridge, what survives is a partially intact central arch and accompanying piers, a short length of the NE arch and the demolished remains of the SE arch. The overall length of the visible remains is 7.7m and is 4.3m wide including cutwaters. The surviving central segmental arch is formed of narrow voussoirs set on edge rising from straight-sided piers. The keystone is wedge-shaped and was slightly too large to fit perfectly. The bridge spans an opening 2.1m wide and is approximately 3.8m in length. At its narrowest width it measures 0.8m surviving better at the upstream end to the SE where it measures 2.1m. The piers are composed of well-made coursed rubble masonry up to five courses high. In overall height the piers measure 1.5m from the river bed to the arch springing point with evidence for some rebuilding of on the inner edge of the N pier. Two triangular cutwaters project 0.5m upstream at 45 degrees each side the arch opening. Just beyond the intrados of the SE arch the imprint of a short length of wicker centering can be seen at the N side of the arch. Test excavations located 1.5m to the W of the bridge in 2003 under licence no. 02E1018 revealed a cut-limestone wall post-dating the bridge that was aligned N-W/S-E which followed the course of the Griffeen River (Kavanagh 2006, 170) References: Kavanagh, J. 2006 King John's Bridge, Lucan. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003, 170. See attached Rocque's 1760 Map of County Dublin showing King Johns Bridge and Esker Church ruins See attached reconstruction of King John's Bridge by Jonathan Cully courtesy of the Society for Old Lucan Compiled by: Margaret Keane Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 14 March 2023

Architectural heritage

• King John's Bridge, bridge, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, c.1820. Segmental arch with dressed voussoir stones, set into limestone rubble construction with granite coping blocks. Modern alterations to the south-eastern elevation.

• Esker House, farm house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farm house, c.1780, with shallow advanced end bays. Smooth rendered walls. Timber sash windows. Timber panelled door with simple radial fanlight and side lights. Pitched slate roof with raised gables, each having rendered chimney stacks. Extension to rere with hipped roof. Limestone rubble boundary wall to front. To west a smooth rendered boundary wall with a round-headed doorway with cast-iron gates to gardens. Rebuilt rubble stone gate piers and screen walls with late nineteenth-century cast-iron gates to east.

• Outbuilding, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings, c.1810, the southernmost now converted into a dwelling. Set in an L-shape both have pitched slate roofs and are of limestone rubble construction. Some timber tongue and groove stable doors remaining. Modern skylights to south pitch of converted building.

• House, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1938. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Timber sash windows. Glazed timber tongue and groove door in shallow projecting concrete surround. Widely-spaced dentil cornice beneath overhanging eaves of a pitched tiled roof with central and shared brick chimney stacks. Timber picket fence to street front and large gardens to north.

• House, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1938. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Replacement timber casement windows. Replacement timber panelled door in shallow projecting concrete surround. Pitched tiled roof with central and shared brick chimney stacks. Crenellated breeze-block wall and gate piers to street front.

• House, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1938, now abandoned in favour of modern extension to north. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. All windows and doors have been breeze-blocked. Shallow projecting concrete surround to doorway. Pitched tiled roof with central and shared brick chimney stacks.

• House, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1938. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Aluminium casement windows. Shallow projecting concrete surround to doorway. Pitched tiled roof with central and shared brick chimney stacks. Modern crenellated limestone rubble wall and gate piers to street front.

• Esker Abbey, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey house, c.1860, now derelict. Roughcast rendered finish with breeze-blocked windows. Some timber casement windows to the first floor. Projecting single-storey porch to the centre bay. Half-hipped slate roof with rendered chimney stacks. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with rendered, ruled and lined gate piers having caps bearing remains of house name. Cast-iron pedestrian gate. Rere extension with pitched slate roof and chimney stack to gable end. Range of stone rubble outbuildings to rere and east. House possibly originally single-storey and earlier.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Esker South, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3004 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Esker South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Esker South · An Eiscir Theas

Area

1,861,653 m² (186.17 ha, 460.02 acres)

Civil parish

Esker, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Lucan-Esker, the unit of the census

Census 2022

33,849 people lived in 9,990 households in the Lucan-Esker electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Balgaddy, Ballyowen, Doddsborough, Finnstown, Glebe, Grange, Kishoge, Lucan and Pettycanon

Placenames

Esker South on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.